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Ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'On the spiritual perfection of life' and 'Causation and Laws of Nature'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]
	Full Idea: Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ.
	From: DH Mellor / A Oliver (Introduction to 'Properties' [1997], §1)
	A reaction: Note that this definition does not mention a causal role for properties.

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]
	Full Idea: Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all.
	From: DH Mellor / A Oliver (Introduction to 'Properties' [1997], §3)
	A reaction: Objects might be grasped without language, but events cannot be understood, and explanations of events seem inconceivable without properties (implying that they are essentially causal).

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

14605	Tropes are the same as events [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: Tropes can be identified with events.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (Causation and Laws of Nature [2008], n17)
	A reaction: This is presumably on the view of events, associated with Kim, as instantiations of properties. This idea is a new angle on tropes and events which had never occurred to me.